Red Bull Grumman Albatross article

ArtS · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:50 pm

Thought this might be of interest.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7192755&page=1

Enjoy...

Regards,

Art S.

Ryan Keough · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:55 pm

Watch the video too...

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7205994

Boo, Hiss... GMA and ABC should be ashamed of such poor reporting... using Coast Guard service disposal as a basis of determining it's "Unsafe" - then using the accident involving a MALLARD as another basis.

Friggin media.

TAdan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:18 pm

Wow, that article is completely idiotic :roll:

Ah, the media.

Glyn · **Joined:** Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:23 am **Posts:** 321

[quote="Ryan Keough"]

Boo, Hiss... GMA and ABC should be ashamed of such poor reporting... using Coast Guard service disposal as a basis of determining it's "Unsafe" - then using the accident involving a MALLARD as another basis.

Friggin media.

The reporters might be training for careers as Hollywood script writers.

cozmo · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:08 pm

Reading the replies over there restores some of my faith in the folks that get their news from old media. I wonder if the people who wrote the story will learn from the criticism? Or, if they even read the criticism.

Jim Beasley · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:10 pm

I've had dealings with that Brian Ross guy. More interested in controversy than accurate reporting.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Ooooohh! Frightening Brian, frightening! :roll:

I think that ABC should retire those commentators due to their advanced age- I mean they could drop dead at any moment!

Bluedharma · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:55 pm

Yeah I saw this on GMA this morning... :roll:

1954 = UNSAFE???

They forgot to tell you that you should check under your bed for the Boogeyman.
Over 90% of all children believe in him.
So he must live under your bed!!!!

Oh yeah... don't eat Bacon on your BLT.

Ryan Keough · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:33 pm

The deductive correlation that ABC News is using reminds me very much of that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

Bedevere: "And what do you burn apart from witches?"
Villager: "More Witches!"
Villager #2: "Wood!"
Bedevere: "So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?"
Bedevere: "Does wood sink in water?"
Villager #2: "No, it floats! It floats!"
Bedevere: "What also floats in water?"
Villager #1: "Bread!"
Villager #2: "Apples!"
Villager #3: "Uh, very small rocks!"
Arthur: "A duck!"
Bedevere: "Exactly. So, logically..."
Villager #3: "If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of wood. "
Bedevere: "And therefore?"
Villagers: "A witch! A witch!..."

Nathan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:44 pm

I saw it on GMA too and was going to post about it but I was sooo freakin po'd at the time I descided I better not. Talk about total BS. :roll:

Ethan · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:52 pm

im confused does the long wing albaross have a wing problem that the short wing doesnt have. Is there a difference structually ?

aseanaero · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:20 am

Quote:

im confused does the long wing albaross have a wing problem that the short wing doesnt have

Long wing version has a spar life of 5,500hrs , short wing version doesn't have a life limit.

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